Michael Wolff has 'dozens of hours' of tapes to back up Bannon, White House interviews

So much for hoping there are no "tapes" of their conversations, Donald.

Axios has learned that Michael Wolff recorded some of his interactions with Steve Bannon and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh while preparing his lightning rod of a book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House."

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According to Axios, Wolff has "dozens of hours" of tapes to verify the many quotes that caused massive embarrassment for the administration.

Regardless, during the White House daily press briefing Thursday afternoon, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said "Fire and Fury" contained "numerous mistakes" and called the book "complete fantasy."

Among other things, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told Michael Wolff that the 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and other Trump campaign officials with a Russian lawyer promising information on Hillary Clinton was “treasonous.” (Craig Ruttle/Carolyn Kaster/AP)

"I'm not aware that they were ever particularly close," she said of Trump and Bannon.

Since August 2016, Bannon served as the Trump campaign's chief executive right up until Election Day, after which he secured a key role in the administration.

"I've known Steve Bannon a long time. If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn't even think about hiring him," Trump told journalists who questioned his decision to hire him as White House chief strategist in light of his role at Breitbart, a website that has hosted articles by white nationalists.

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Officials have challenged the book in another instance by asking how the author could have known what Bannon and now deceased Fox News head Roger Ailes talked about at a private dinner, but as it happens, Wolff hosted the two at his townhouse in Manhattan.